Johnny Depp Vs Amber Heard: The incident has been going on since April 11.
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On Thursday, Amber Heard testified that ex-husband Johnny Depp sexually assaulted her and threatened to “slit her face” with a broken bottle during a heated argument a month after her 2015 marriage. surname.
The 36-year-old “Aquaman” actress recounted multiple alleged instances of physical and sexual abuse during her second day in the witness stand in a defamation lawsuit filed against her by the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star. ” Sue.
Depp, 58, brought her lawsuit against Heard over an article she wrote for The Washington Post in December 2018 in which she described herself as “a figurehead for domestic abuse”.
Heard did not name Depp in the op-ed, but he sued her for implying he was a domestic abuser and is seeking $50 million in damages.
Texas-born Heard protested, demanding $100 million and claiming she suffered “pervasive violence and physical abuse” at his hands.
She recounts in an amazing way an incident that happened in March 2015 in Australia, where Depp was filming the fifth installment of the “Pirates” series.
Depp previously testified in court that a “hatred” Heard was the aggressor in the argument and severed the tip of one of his fingers by throwing a vodka bottle at him.
Heard provided a very different account in the witness stand on Thursday.
She said she confronted Depp about his drinking and that he challenged her to try to get a bottle from him.
“I get it,” she said. “I smashed it to the ground right between us.
“It really annoyed him. It was like a lightbulb switch off.”
She said Depp threw another bottle at her but “thankfully it slipped.” “It can also be cans, like soft drinks, beer or soft drinks, and they come to me one after another.”
‘At one point he took a broken bottle and hit my face, neck area, side of my jaw and he told me he was going to touch my face,’ she said, adding that Depp shouted at her that she had “ruined his life.” . “
Lying down in sobs, Heard said Depp ripped off her nightgown and sexually assaulted her with a bottle.
“Johnny shoved the bottle inside me and shoved it in me over and over again,” she said, while repeatedly threatening to kill her.
Heard said she managed to escape, and when she walked down to her bedroom the next morning, she found Depp had used blood from her fingers, food and paint to write “incoherent” messages around the house – on the mirror. , wall, lampshade and others. surfaces.
She said she didn’t know how his fingertip got severed.
– ‘I feel so embarrassed’ –
Heard also testified about another incident in which Depp allegedly slapped and kicked her on a plane after accusing her of having an affair with her “The Adderall Diaries” co-star James Franco.
Heard said: “He was mad at me for taking the job with James Franco.
“He hates, hates James Franco and has accused me of having sex with him in my past since we did ‘Pineapple Express’ together.”
“He called me a slut,” Heard said, recounting the incident on a flight in May 2014.
She said Depp, who was drinking, slapped her in the face and kicked her in the back as she moved to another seat.
Members of Depp’s security detail and his assistants were on the plane at the time, she said.
“Nobody said anything, nobody did anything. It’s like you can hear pins falling on a plane,” she said. “And I remember feeling so embarrassed.”
Depp, in the previous four days of testifying, denied ever physically abusing Heard and argued that she was often violent.
Depp’s attorneys had previously brought experts to the stand, who testified that he lost millions to abuse allegations, including a $22.5 million payday for the sixth installment. of the series “Pirates”.
Depp filed a defamation complaint in the United States after losing a separate defamation case in London in November 2020 that he sued The Sun for calling him a “wife beater”.
Depp, a three-time Academy Award nominee, and Heard met in 2009 on the set of “The Rum Diary” and were married in February 2015. Their divorce was finalized two years later.
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